Symbol Project

While using Photoshop, everything was difficult for me especially tracing the DNA strand and fixing it up. it was difficult because the picture was really light and when i traced it with the magic wand tool, i could not get all the places highlighted because the original picture came with a background of its own. so there for i had to contrast the picture to get more of the details added on. And then when i got that over with the DNA strand was not clean it was sloppy, so fixing it was also difficult because the paint brush was not helping me out because it made the lines sloppy. So getting clean lines was one of the most difficult parts of this project. The tool that i feel most comfortable using now is the magic wand tool, because now i know what to do if i want to trace a picture cleanly instead of using the paint brush tool, which made it hard for me to create a clean trace. Another tool that i feel comfortable using is the paint brush tool, because while creating my project i experimented with the different textures that come with the paintbrush. i think that even though i feel comfortable using these tool i also think that i can get better at using, because there is always something new you can learn that you didn't know before. Something that i would like to crate with Photoshop would be creating expressive lighting effects, or learning to make reflections on sunglasses, and learning to make water reflections on pictures.    

#tb Sports day

cuz were cute (:

Me and my little brother GIF

Marian Banjtes Concept board

Good Graphic Design

-Taken @ Lower East Side E 9th St.
It's good graphic design because its advertising a product on something that people pass everyday so its not hard to miss

Letter Project Reflection

Final

1)To get to the final piece of my letter project, I first started had to choose a letter that I wanted to design. After I decided on my letter, which was the letter S, I had to brainstorm and create 20 thumbnail sketches with the letter S. But before that Ms. Lee showed the class a power-point on some possible examples of what different artists did with letters, so that helped us get an idea of what was expected of us. After the 20 thumbnail sketches were done we showed our class mates our drawings and they put hearts next to the drawing they thought we should continue developing and make it our final and a star next to the drawing that they liked.  Next we choose two of the sketches that we liked the best and made a draft of possible sketches that we might do for our final, then when that was done we decided from the two which one we were going to stick with and further develop. After that I got a mirror and wrote an S on it with Lipstick and I kissed corners of the mirror with the lipstick. I took multiple photos, some where me taking the picture with my phone pointing to the mirror and some other pictures were taken by some of my classmates at various angels and I was putting the lipstick on. After that I choose the photo that I liked the most and with an app on my phone I made the whole photo black and white and  the app allows me to restore some of the color back, so I restored the S and the lip prints that I made with the lipstick and I also blurred out my face a bit in the photo so the letter can stand out more. And that was the process I took to get to my final letter project. I feel like the process was helpful because during the whole process I was always able to better my project weather it was getting feedback from my class mates or having my class mates help me take pictures and suggests certain things to better my project.

2) I arrived to my concept for my letter project because I love  the idea of writing with lipstick on the mirror because it's a little sexy, and also I love lipstick so I wanted to do something that represents something about myself. The way I did this was by writing an S on a mirror with red lipstick and I kissed the mirror as well while having lipstick on and writing xoxo on the mirror as well.

3) The most challenging part of my project was when I was taking the pictures because I was not liking how they where coming out so I was getting frustrated because even though some people said they looked nice I didn't feel like it was representing me and that was a theme that I was trying to maintain through out the project.

4) Yes I am satisfied with my final piece because I feel like I did a good job representing myself and that was one of my main goals through out this project. I did not just want to have choose a random letter and a random concept that means nothing to who I am and I think I was able to achieve this goal. I even had one of my friends tell me "Wow Scarlet this is so like you".
5) If I could change something about my design I would change the fact that it's a bit plain to me so I would try to make it less plain but i was aiming for a kind of sexy theme so I feel like the colors I choose where appropriate because if it was colorful I don't think it would show that theme.

Thumbnail sketches

                                                

draft

 

 

 

 

My insperation

I really don't have something that inspires me but, someone who inspires me is my mom. The reason why is because she is a hard working women who doesn't give up easily and she teaches me how how keep on striving even when things seem hard or impossible.  Also the passion that she has for helping people that are in worst positions than what she is in, and the way she views life also is what inspires me-to be more like her. And that's why my mom is my inspiration.